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Richard Leeming

@richardleeming.bsky.social
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Innovation consultant, working on digital and data transformation for the public good. Labour & Co-op councillor for Dulwich Village Ward. Chair, Labour Walks and Cycles. Arsenal fan, cyclist, sailor, dad and many other things in no particular order.

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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
At my 94 year old father’s last week and apropos of nothing his carer remarked ‘we don’t do this job for the money’ …
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Labour Walks & Cycles @labourwalkscycles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Lovely to hear a rousing speech from @kimleadbeatermp.bsky.social at the start of our conference walk and cycle ride on the opening day of Labour conference
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Labour Walks & Cycles @labourwalkscycles.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Final preparations for Labour Conference are taking shape with the last minute discovery of the long-lost password for this account! Stand by for updates across the week!
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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Wealth-creating entrepreneurs ride bikes add walk too…
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Real Gaz on a proper bike: gazza_d@toot.bike @gazza-d.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I don't believe he left the UK because of the odd filtered street. I do believe he's left cos he doesn't want to pay tax and contribute to the UK. Unpatriotic.
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arseblog @arseblog.com · 26/09/2026
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Rui Pinto has done football a service
Morning all. There’s only one place to start this morning, and that’s with the story that Man City have been found guilty on all but one of the 115 charges that have been pending for so long. First, what a scoop it is from David Ornstein. 🚨 EXCLUSIVE: Manchester City found guilty on virtually all […] The post Rui Pinto has done football a service appeared first on Arseblog ... an Arsenal blog.
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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This 🧵 helps explain the reaction of some cyclists to the recent conversation here about cyclist behaviour. While it’s true that some cyclists behave badly and that’s unpleasant for pedestrians, while we have a moral panic about that we accept deaths caused by bad driving:
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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 25/09/2026
I see a lot of people complaining about the undoubtedly stressful conditions at present on London's roads. But I see few people complaining about motor vehicles. Yet in the last 24 hours three vulnerable road users have died after being hit by people driving motor vehicles.
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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Can’t wait for @arseblog.bsky.social this morning. I expect it will be a doozy.
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Connected by Data @connectedbydata.org · 24/09/2026
Summer’s gone; parliament is back. In this blog for @futuregovforum.bsky.social, Jeni Tennison & Gavin Freeguard assert a digital, devolved state needs to be deliberate - and democratic. 🔗
futuregovforum.substack.com
A digital, devolved state needs to be deliberate – and democratic
By Gavin Freeguard and Jeni Tennison
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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m English, though my father’s family are descendants of vikings and some of them moved to Argentina more than a century ago, my mother was born in Belfast and her grandmother was born in France. My wife is English though her dad was born in German, her mum in Dublin and her mum in Newfoundland.
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A #WarOnWalking. A war on biking. A war on public transit. A war on any transportation choice other than driving. A war on better cities. But a war on cars? Hardly. Cars still get most of the space, rights, budget, prioritization, etc. And any effort to add more choice is immediately attacked.
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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Glad to see this thread. I thought the claim that reduction in bus spends being partly due to cycle lanes was unjustified and spoiled an otherwise useful article.
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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
In Dulwich, with several public schools in close proximity @saferoutes.bsky.social has been doing good work for more than a decade to persuade schools they need to address this problem. But the data suggests the schools need to up their game.
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James Ball @jamesrball.com · 22/09/2026
I may get shouted out for this, but it's a real observation: Polanski has a pattern of behaviour of making trouble for himself by telling fibs when he absolutely doesn't need to do so. He lies reflexively and then creates several more news cycles as a result.
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Mums for Lungs @mumsforlungs.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
“What family needs a car with a 4.4-litre engine that goes from zero to 60 in four seconds?" Powerful piece on the need to ban SUV advertising and introduce limits on the width, length and bonnet height of cars. #Carspreading #RoadDanger
standard.co.uk
Daughter calls on Sadiq Khan to crack down on ‘monster’ SUVs after parents killed
Claire Corkery is calling on Sadiq Khan to back tougher controls on large SUVs after her parents were killed by a BMW X5 travelling at 87mph
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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Given the style, content and manner of the author's contributions to a recent debate here on road safety this article comes as something of a surprise: "Acknowledging the other side might have point risks ceding territory, so the impulse is to double down." www.newstatesman.com/politics/pol...
newstatesman.com
Britain is afraid of disagreement
Exclusive new research reveals we value robust debate – we just can't do it
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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Everyone on BlueSky lives in Holborn & St Pancras except for one man: the Green candidate.
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Thousands of university jobs lost too, and barely a peep either.
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Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I think it's absolutely mad that today there's a *national news story* about 400 oil platform workers losing their jobs, and the government being blamed. 25% of the UK TV industry lost their jobs in the last 4 years and we never hear a peep about it! Some jobs are 'real jobs' I guess.
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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
If you overload a boat on the starboard side it will flounder…
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
So much of the right these days have a massive patriotism problem. This guy: - is a tax exile (left long before this govt) - hates his own country while complaining he doesn’t get big enough subsidies from it - laments the manufacturing hit from a Brexit he supported www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Billionaire Manchester United owner Sir Jim Ratcliffe says he has lost confidence in UK
Ineos founder Sir Jim Ratcliffe tells the BBC he thinks the country is "on the slide" and calls for more investment in the North Sea.
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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
That wouldn't happen to be tax paid on profits made, in no small part, from the delusions and often outright misery of thousands upon thousands of his fellow countrymen, would it?
ft.com
UK’s top taxpayer says he would ‘not wish to be reborn’ in Britain
Betfred founder Fred Done threatens 500 shop closures over tax rises that have left him fearful for the UK’s prospects
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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
God I hate this 'people who create wealth' nonsense. Let's see how much wealth we have in a society without teachers, nurses etc......
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
An alternative (and equally factual) description would be "Zack Polanski tries and fails to find a way to avoid taking a position on a horrendously toxic motion *prior* to standing for election as an MP"
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Carlton Reid @carltonreid.com · 18/09/2026
In 2012, Addison Lee boss John Griffin was all over the news when he ranted that cyclists should “pay road tax.” Yesterday, HMRC won its case saying that, since 2013, the taxi man has been avoiding paying income tax. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Telegraph headline from 2012:

Cyclists should pay road tax, says taxi boss Careless cyclists are on a
'voyage into the abyss'
The head of London's largest minicab company says cyclists should think more about their own safety before "throwing themselves on to some of the most congested spaces in the world".Guardian headline today:

Addison Lee founder owes
£20.5m in tax after UK tribunal ruling
HMRC wins challenge over John Griffin's claim to be non-dom despite having lived in England since childhood. With pic of old man in office.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
British journalism and polling are both utterly implicated in the Farage funding scandal iandunt.substack.com/p/british-jo...
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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Delighted to see this, while its vital to consider people's views when creating active travel infrastructure, the current approach to consultation creates a vehicle for opposition and misinformation which reduces the legitimacy of successful projects. thinklabour.substack.com/p/can-the-go...
thinklabour.substack.com
Can the government really stop consulting on microchipping cats?
Here’s one way
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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Ok, hear me out. A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
Thompson and Thompson
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Torsten Bell @torstenbell.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
These are thugs being thugs, not legitimate protests
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Daniel Sugarman @danielsugarman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Sadiq Khan responding to a question from Zack Polanski at City Hall by talking to him in Urdu is some pretty great trolling.
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Alison Stenning @alisonstenning.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“The belief that a driver should be allowed to do whatever they please, regardless of the impact on others, mounts the pavement and travels deep into our lives.”
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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🎶🎸 🥁🎹 “But is this the stuff dreams are made of? If this is the stuff dreams are made of No wonder I feel like I'm floating on air No wonder I feel like I'm floating on air”
chrisboardmancbe.substack.com
The Elephant in The Room
The space between things might just be the overlooked ingredient for success.
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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Excellent…
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Give this incredibly brave woman a medal. It would be great if more TV reporters did what @vicderbyshire.bsky.social does here: provide time and space for the genuinely decent and non-racist to air their views and share their experiences.
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Peter Walker @peterwalker99.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reform in Wales having quite a bad day. Announced in the last 5 mins: • Leader Dan Thomas steps down due to "personal reasons" (he was arrested). • Reform MS Sarah Cooper-Lesadd defects to Plaid, saying Reform are "far more interested in division, opposition and headlines than finding solutions"
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Muddy Matt @muddymoles.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
All this is beside the point of the thread. Pedestrians and bikes are arguing over a tiny space given to them. Restrict cars in cities and give the space to people on bikes, scooters, mobility carriages etc. and all this argument goes away. The trees ARE the wood.
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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
This is the only sensible reply in this post so far.
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 13/09/2026
Sweden general election: left-wing opposition block set to win, exit polls project – live
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Sweden general election: left-wing opposition block set to win, exit polls project – Europe live
A change of government is on the cards after initial projections put the left-wing opposition block at 51.3%, with 46.8% for the rightwing government parties
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JWexTheSpa @jwsidders.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
At just about every level of society, on a like for like basis the English (with a relatively low life expectancy for Western Europe) comfortably outlive the Americans. Why? The NHS, yes, but also better food and workplace safety standards, a stronger welfare safety net, less reliance on cars etc.
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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I’ve a friend who volunteers for the RNLI. They’ve been told to to remove RNLI stickers from their car and not to wear RNLI branded clothing in public. Yet this man is complaining about a journalist doing their job, finding information that he himself published.
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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What's that, Hysterical reporting from the Guardian you say. Hold my beer!: open.substack.com/pub/jamesoma...
open.substack.com
The Guardian’s data centre reporting is needlessly hysterical
Less talk, more context.
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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
What was I just saying about hysterical and uninformed media coverage?
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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sheesh, one of the things that’s most wrong with this country is hysterical, uninformed and stupid media coverage of good ideas. I’ve just booked a two week holiday in Italy and paid a tourist tax on every booking. Sat no point did it affect my decision on where to go and where to stay.
theguardian.com
Tourists in England face nightly levy on hotel and Airbnb stays under new plans
Labelled a tourist tax, proposals would give mayors power to decide how revenue raised should be invested
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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
And in this vein, today I went to have a look at the new Zebra crossing that @margynewens.bsky.social and I delivered on Half Moon Lane, making it safer for children at Judith Kerr Primary School.
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Will Norman @willnorman.co.uk · 09/09/2026
In the 1970s, over 80% of UK children travelled to school independently. This has fallen to 25% - impacting health, well being, independence etc. In London, we're tackling the school run. With 870 school streets, 66% of kids now walk, cycle or scoot. ldd.news/uk-news/lond...
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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Stop the Family Farm Tax has to be one of the most dishonest political campaigns in recent history
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz: “The word "remigration" is nothing other than a synonym for ethnic cleansing based on origin and skin color.”
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Richard Leeming @richardleeming.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Man who sells foreign food is racist:
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.
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